On World AIDS Day earlier this month, the HIV community honored lives lost and progress made in fighting the HIV pandemic. We are grateful for the federal investment in responding to the HIV pandemic and take stock of the critical work ahead. As the House and Senate negotiate and vote on a final tax bill we are deeply concerned about the impact that passage of the tax bill under consideration in the Senate, and the bill passed by the House of Representatives, would have on our ability to end the HIV pandemic.

The HIV Medicine Association is an organization of medical professionals who practice HIV medicine. We represent the interests of our patients by promoting quality in HIV care and by advocating for policies that ensure a comprehensive and humane response to the AIDS pandemic informed by science and social justice.

Science Speaks Blog

A mystery illness and the importance of research dollars – “Too many diagnoses for one person and all rare.” This was the puzzle that a new patient presented to Dr. Charles Van Der Horst, during his medical internship in 1980. Over the next year science would begin to put the pieces together, and Dr. Van […]

The first cluster of microcephaly cases just outside Angola’s capital city was noticed in September of this year, marking nine months since tests in January had confirmed the virus in a sick adult, and in a stillborn infant with neurological defects. A WHO bulletin now says cases in the area had surfaced in May and […]

In 2014, as international health leaders and policy makers launched the Global Health Security Agenda to meet increasingly urgent needs to prevent, detect and respond to infectious disease outbreaks around the world, the emergence of the Ebola crisis in West Africa underscored the immediacy of their mission. Spreading from a forest in Guinea to sweep […]

Among men infected with Zika while visiting the Americas, the median time the virus remained after being detected in their semen was nearly three months, a study of infected travelers returning to Belgium has found. Zika was found in semen samples from nine of 15 men who participated in the study, including in the semen […]

Progress toward ending the HIV epidemic is challenged by threats to ACA – In a timely call for accountability, Chair of the HIV Medicine Association Dr. Melanie Thompson describes here how political battles to undermine the Affordable Care Act also undermine resources needed to win the war against HIV at home. Dr. Thompson, who also […]